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Python for DevOps

Master Python concepts specific to DevOps. Build your Python automation skills from scratch to expert level. Best Python course for beginners and professionals.

50 hours

Duration

Beginner

Level

Live

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Python for DevOps

Beginner to Advanced Level

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Course Pricing

Limited seats per batch
Indian Students (Batch)?21,999
International Students (Batch)$379
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Course Overview

What You'll Learn

  • Data types, variables, and operators
  • Control structures and loops
  • Functions and modular programming
  • File handling and data manipulation
  • Errors and exceptions handling, Regular Expression in Python
  • Python modules for DevOps
  • Interacting with APIs using requests

Prerequisites

  • No prior programming experience required
  • Basic Linux/system admin skills
  • Willingness to learn and practice

Career Opportunities

  • DevOps Engineer
  • Python Developer
  • Automation Engineer

Why choose us?

Continuous Assignments
Doubt clearing
Mock interviews
Real life projects
Post training mentorship and support
Small batch size for personalised attention

Course Curriculum

Week 1-2
Python Fundamentals & Setup
  • Why Python for DevOps and IDE setup
  • Basic syntax and indentation
  • Writing your first script
  • Variables, data types, and operators
  • Input/output operations
  • Hands-on: Automate system information (hostname, OS, uptime)
Week 3
Control Structures
  • Conditional statements (if, elif, else)
  • Loops (for, while)
  • Break and continue statements
  • Nested loops and conditions
  • Hands-on: Number guessing game
Week 4
Data Structures
  • String manipulation and methods
  • Lists and Tuples
  • Dictionaries, Sets and their operations
  • List & Dictionary comprehensions
  • Shallow copy and deep copy
  • Hands-on: Storing multiple users in lists and user details in a dictionary
Week 5
Functions and Modules
  • Function definition and calling
  • Parameters and return values
  • Lambda functions
  • Inbuilt and user-defined modules
  • Hands-on: Creating a function based script
Week 6
File handling, Exception handling and Regular Expressions
  • File handling operations - .txt, .conf, .env, .log files
  • Exception handling techniques
  • Custom exceptions
  • Regular expressions basics - parsing files
  • Working with json, yaml and csv files
  • Hands-on: Reading and updating config files
Week 7
Python modules for DevOps
  • os, sys, pathlib, shutil, psutil, subprocess
  • System automation and logging
  • Sending emails using smtplib
  • Hands-on: Automating disk, cpu, memory usage, services, etc.
Week 8
Working with APIs
  • Requests, urllib: interacting with REST APIs
  • Automating HTTP requests, authentication
  • Network monitoring (ping, hostname resolution)
  • Hands-on: Automate DNS updates or SSL certificate expiry checks
Week 9
Revision & Project work
  • Recap of important topics
  • Project - Log analysis & alerting for abnormal events
  • Project - Automated Environment Health (CPU, disk, memory, logs)

Free Learning Resources

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Python Basics
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Python Basics

Learn Python fundamental concept - Variables & Memory Management

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Advanced concepts in Python
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Advanced concepts in Python

Shallow copy & Deep copy

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Loops in Python
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Loops in Python

for loop

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